D-Rose: sore knees, sore body, sore feelings

Team USA and Derrick Rose face tough decisions ahead

Sports Illustrated's Matt Dollinger and David Gardner discuss which players need to make an impact to be selected to the Team USA World Cup roster and if Derrick Rose should decide to withdraw his name from consideration.

Sports Illustrated's Matt Dollinger and David Gardner discuss which players need to make an impact to be selected to the Team USA World Cup roster and if Derrick Rose should decide to withdraw his name from consideration.

Why would y'all believe Derrick Rose when he says it's not his surgically repaired knees?

Just throwing, um, stuff against the wall:

We’re up to four days now since Derrick Rose’s first game, and he still hasn’t practiced or played. And then he’s going to play, what, three games in five days in a tournament nobody here cares about?

Feeling good about Rose’s participation with USA Basketball, Bulls fans?

Precautionary they called it when being forced to hold Rose out of Wednesday night’s practice game against the Dominican Republic. Look, if they were worried about taking precautions, Rose wouldn’t be on the team in the first place playing for nothing except maybe extending a sneaker brand.

Don’t you love how people try to sound smart when they’re participating in a dumb thing?

Y’all don’t got to believe that, either. Rose, see, also said previously he doesn’t know where talk of a rift between the Bulls and his inner circle came from when Rose himself spoke to it, so good luck with Rose’s credibility.

Point No. 1: Derrick Rose shouldn’t be playing for USA Basketball in this silly world tournament that has already cost the Pacers next season and maybe the rest of the decade.

Point No. 2: Even if he only works out in the summer for the Bulls and even if the only games he plays are for the Bulls,...

Point No. 1: Derrick Rose shouldn’t be playing for USA Basketball in this silly world tournament that has already cost the Pacers next season and maybe the rest of the decade.

Point No. 2: Even if he only works out in the summer for the Bulls and even if the only games he plays are for the Bulls,...

(Steve Rosenbloom)

Maybe it’s me, but even accounting for Marc Trestman’s standard monotone, it sounds like the Bears coach has zero interest in recidivist miscreant Santonio Holmes being on this roster. Remember, Trestman didn’t even bother to watch Holmes’ workout, and the Bears signed Greg Herd first. Yeah, this sounds like someone else forced the team-dividing Holmes on him.

The Seahawks would do the Bears a favor by starting with their hurry-up offense. After the Eagles and Jaguars pantsed the Bears with their versions of it the last two weeks, the Bears’ hurry-up defense needs to look like it has a clue and proper conditioning.

Exhibition games have become miserable excuses for football because the NFL has targeted illegal contact, defensive holding and offensive pass interference. Those are football’s equivalent of basketball’s block-charge calls, and NFL refs are as maddeningly inconsistent as NBA officials. If this nonsense continues into and through the regular season, then some team’s Super Bowl hopes will die on a penalty that is a coin flip.

You watch, the NFL’s competition committee will make linebackers and defensive backs play with both hands clasped behind their helmets.

I’d swear that the person ordering NFL officials to throw a ridiculous number of flags and ruin the pace of games and make people angry is Bud Selig.

And then an exhibition game gets good ratings, so forget it. Nobody notices the flags when Johnny Manziel flips off a team.

Taking a break from holding cities hostage for stadiums, now the NFL wants to stick up halftime performers for some of the proceeds from the next tour. Tell you what, I’m all for it if there’s a chance that this kind of extortion leads to the end of these overblown halftime shows and leaves us with just football and the commercials.

Chiefs running back Jamaal Charles turned his ankle carrying a box out of the dorms. Isn’t that what rookies are for?

Baseball used a flimsy rule interpretation and good common sense in upholding the Giants’ protest of the “Tarpgate’’ game. There’s nothing mechanical about a non-mechanical tarp. But no matter. The Cubs lobbied on the Giants’ behalf and are greatly relieved because the last thing they want to do is win games. I mean, have you ever seen a team work so hard to give away a victory? OK, besides the White Sox bullpen.

Losing, by the way, is why Edwin Jackson continues to start. To make sure the Cubs lose at least one game each time through the rotation. That’s the Cubs’ idea of a stopper when it’s draft position that actually matters.

Jackson has allowed 26 earned runs in the first inning alone this season. Jake Arrieta has allowed 34 earned runs all season. Yes, Arrieta has been as dynamic as Jackson has been pathetic.

I don’t care what happened Wednesday in Williamsport, Theo, I’d still like to see you get Mo’Ne Davis in a deal for Jackson.

Is there a way to broadcast the Little League World Series without interviewing anyone? No kids, no managers, no parents? Can we vote on this?

I continue to see pictures of Kings players cavorting with the Stanley Cup that the Blackhawks lost because they couldn’t hold three leads in a Game 7 at home. I continue to want to take an ice pick to my eyes.

Stupid NASCAR rule. If idiot drivers want to jump out of their cars on the track while racing continues, then let them. It’s how we cull the herd.